The unexamined life examined

The unexamined life examined Anne CabotWymanKipling's Cat — A Memoir of my Father2010Protean PressRockport, MAISBN 978-0-9625780-4-5

But knowledge cannot be simply free — someone has to pay for it! I agree with the implication that we live in a turbulent age when it comes to publishing our science. The model whereby the rich universities and their faculties paid for journals and books is surely over. It was inherently discriminatory — scientists in poorer countries had no chance and, in conservation, it’s those poorer countr...

The control of life: unexamined law and the life worth living.

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Unexamined bodies of evidence.

In his News & Analysis story “Do island sites suggest a coastal route to the Americas?” (4 March, p. 1122), M. Balter discusses the implications of evidence that more than 10,000 years ago, people used marine resources and specialized technology on California's Channel Islands. He mentions that some archaeologists, citing Spanish ethnohistorical observations, argue against interpreting the evid...

Maintenance of Certification. "The unexamined life is not worth living."--Socrates.